“St. François d’Assise” in Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra and Sylvain Cambreling this last November has been selected as the best performance among all the classical music performances held in Japan during 2017, by the voting of 40 Japanese music critics. This voting is conducted annually by the most authoritative Japanese music magazine “Ongaku no Tomo”.

"Vincent le Texier as the title role demonstrated superb levels of modulation creating a delicate feeling of floating. Truly, it was rare to enjoy a performance attaining such a high degree of perfection. Exactly because of such impeccability, I wished the performance had a moment — even a length of just one millimeter — of coquetry and euphoria."